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All posts are for employment with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) located at their central offices based at Friends House in Euston, London unless described otherwise.

General Secretary, Quaker Finance & Property

Annual salary: Managerial scale

Based at Friends House, London

35 hours working week, with some evening and weekend work required

Are you the dependable leader we need to head the department of Quaker Finance & Property and inspire confidence among colleagues, trustees and Friends?  Have you got experience in finance, budget planning, property stewardship and governance?  Do you have the drive to get the best from our committed and hard-working team?

Would you like the opportunity to use your skills to serve Quakers in Britain, an organisation committed to peace, integrity, simplicity, sustainability and equality in all its dealings?

Finance & Property are vital functions and your role will be to embed the department’s work in our culture and vision, developing a service culture which supports all our work. You will be a member of the Management Meeting, accountable to the Recording Clerk. You will need strong personal communication and management skills.  Can you demonstrate experience of successfully managing change, creating robust systems and developing creativity and leadership skills among your staff?

Closing date for applications: 20 February 2012 (5pm)

Interviews: 1 March 2012

Application Pack:

Systems Accountant

Permanent role
Full time

Location Friends House, London
Starting salary £41,558 (under review)

The Religious Society of Friends seeks an intelligent systems accountant with extensive, wide-ranging experience, and in-depth knowledge, of relational database accounting systems.

Key deliverables in the role will include the specification and development of financial systems and their codification in a series of operating manuals, the refinement of management reporting, the upgrading of budgeting systems and the production of ad hoc reports.

The successful individual will be educated to degree level and hold (or be working towards) a recognised UK accountancy qualification.  (S)he must be able to demonstrate a high degree of competence in Excel, including the construction and application of pivot tables and the writing of complex macros. 

Closing date for applications: February 3, 2012
Interviews week commencing – 13 February, 2012

Application pack

Quaker United Nations Summer School

1st July – 13th July 2012, Geneva

For people with an active interest in international affairs

  • Would you like to study the UN at first hand?
  • Do you want to meet people from all over the world?
  • Are you aged 20 to 26?

The Summer School aims to provide an introduction to the work of the United Nations. 

Application pack:

Deadline for applications – 12th March 2012

Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria

House tour guides

Voluntary, travel expenses paid

Swarthmoor Hall is a historic house known as the ‘cradle of Quakerism’. The house is open to the public four afternoons a week throughout the year and for group tours at other times by appointment. We are looking for Friends who live within travelling distance of the Hall who are interested in acting as a tour guide. We do not necessarily need a regular commitment of hours. We do hope to develop a pool of volunteers who we will train as tour guides for our visitors both adults and children.